1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Laos
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Vientiane Lao
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Northern Lao
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Deutsch
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Lao
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
laoo1244
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Isolating